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Died. Jack Carson, 52. Canadian-born comedian, master of the double take and the slow burn, long stereotyped as the blustering loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Faculty Raiding. What has largely saved Stanford is its fifth president: J. E. Wallace Sterling, 56, a Canadian-born historian who looks like a heavyweight Jimmy Durante, sounds like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...
...meantime, they describe themselves as "Orthodox Anglicans." Rummage Sales. The principal dissenter is the rector of the Church of the Redeemer, the Rev. Edwin West. Canadian-born Schismatic West, a self-styled "eighth generation Anglican," was ordained to the ministry in 1945, became rector of St. Mark's in Palo Alto seven years later. High Churchman West has usually disagreed with the theological opinions of his bishop. Last winter, as part of a long-standing effort to get his parish to adopt tithing instead of rummage sales as a means of raising capital, West attacked some of his churchwomen...
Same day, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (who used to be a pharmacist himself) summoned his Government Operations subcommittee to hear FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick and Pharmacologist Kelsey. Canadian-born Dr. Kelsey, 48, a low-heeled, no-nonsense woman who has practiced medicine besides teaching pharmacology, was a new employee at FDA in September 1960. Her first major assignment was to pass on the application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years...
...played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened the festival, later joined an 18-carat audience to give the troupe a wild standing ovation. "It was tremendous," said Lahr. But the critics thought that the nugget needed some polishing. Said the Chicago Sun-Times, which sent a Canadian-born reporter up to cover the event: "It might be fool's gold for Broadway purposes...